Dame schildert bamboe

atelier van Teisai Hokuba, ca. 1800 - ca. 1805

Een vrouw kijkt door het raam naar de bamboe, die ze aan het naschilderen is, terwijl een tweede dame toekijkt. Met één gedicht.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1995-278
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 129 mm x breedte 178 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; blinddruk; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Teisai Hokuba (workshop of)

A Lady Making a Painting of Bamboo

Japan, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1994;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 20, cat. no. 25 by whom donated to the museum, 1995

Object number: RP-P-1995-278

Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse


Context

Although there are two designs from this series in this collection, no others are known as yet. It thus remains difficult to estimate how many designs it originally comprised. No contemporary source has been identified that could have inspired the group of poets to commission this series.


The artist

Biography

Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-name Teisai. There also seems to have been a Hokuba II.


Entry

A Chinese lady sitting at a low table and making a painting of bamboo turns her head to look behind her. Another lady across the table from her.

The Lady Fan Ts'ao nü, Hansome, from A Collection of Famous Paintings in the 'Feminine' Style, Meihitsu onnae soroi.

One poem by Hakuyotei Aoki ['changed his name to', aratame Senshi no Sakae, a member of the Senshuan poetry club, d. 1816].2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 87.

Issued by the Senshuan Poetry Club(?)
Signature reading: Hokuba ga


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 126


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'workshop of Teisai Hokuba, A Lady Making a Painting of Bamboo, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200382565

(accessed 12 December 2025 12:28:06).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 20, cat. no. 25
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 87.